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Our journey that began with William Petty’s political arithmetic and Blaise Pascal’s correspondence on gaming is at an end. The tour has provided an introduction to the principles and practice of economic and social statistics. The journey has taken us back in time and we have viewed the principal developments in the mirror of history.
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Peters, W.S. (1987). Statistics—A Summing Up. In: Counting for Something. Springer Texts in Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4638-1_22
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